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...some states the highway patrol officially classifies him as a pedestrian. In others he is designated "bicycle." Actually, Clint Shaw is a man who is roller-skating across the U.S. from New York to Los Angeles, a 3,100-mile odyssey that he began May 4 and aims to complete in 56 days. An engaging, superbly conditioned ironworker from Victoria, British Columbia, Shaw, 32, who is 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 198 Ibs. and resembles Clint Eastwood, skates about twelve hours at a stretch and has logged as much as 78 miles a day. Previously, he had cross-skated Canada...
...steak, hamburger or eggs). He has been getting a hero's greeting at small towns en route. He has also been treated at three hospitals for blisters and muscle strains. In Flora, Ill., where TIME'S Dick Woodbury first caught up with the long-distance roller, Shaw was made an honorary citizen by the mayor. In most towns he is besieged by autograph seekers and frequently treated to a free dinner by local worthies. By last weekend, after rolling across rough subsidiary roads in Missouri (he is often refused permission to skate on interstate highways, which would...
...grew up in a Saskatchewan Mennonite community where he attended Bible camp for several summers, Schultz turns into a hired killer on the ice. "I get so worked up I don't know what's going on," he admits. Indeed Schultz at times makes hockey resemble a roller derby or pro wrestling with his wild punching sprees. Against the N.Y. Rangers in a semifinal Stanley Cup game, Schultz slugged Brad Park four times while the Ranger defenseman was pinned to the ice by officials trying to stop the fight. Coach Shero applauds such tough tactics: "Speed, skill...
...Stoppard chain-smokes ideas like cigarettes and emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
Parents in particular appreciate the new "clean" image projected by the rinks. Roller-derby and other rough-house competitions are generally outlawed, and at many of the large rinks, crews of guards patrol the floor, ousting reckless speedsters and troublemakers. Off-duty policemen or uniformed private guards stationed at the door adamantly refuse admission to anyone with a hint of liquor on his breath, and a strict dress code prohibits ragged jeans, bare midriffs and motorcycle jackets. Says Thomas Brown, manager of the Alexandria Roller Skating Rink in Alexandria, Va.: "With all these lousy X-rated movies...